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As I stated, in my opinion they still have a lot of prime content. You made your point, you can move on now.

Sandra

You said it boggled your mind. I attempted to unboggle it. The channel obviously wasn't worth keeping where it was going forward. If it is that important to you then you should choose a provider that offers it the way you want or launch your own service provider and you can make those decisions for yourself.

You said it boggled your mind. I attempted to unboggle it. The channel obviously wasn't worth keeping where it was going forward. If it is that important to you then you should choose a provider that offers it the way you want or launch your own service provider and you can make those decisions for yourself.

As I stated, you made your point and can move on now.

Move on to something you never responded to....if DirecTV is not going carry GolTV the least they can do is remove it from their HD channel lineup on their website, right? Right?

Meh. One person's major is another person's minor. I consider the Pac-12 Networks extremely major, and also GolTV. DirecTV moving them out of the sports pack to the Spanish programming package, which you need a special Dish for, still boggles my freaking mind.

Sandra

I don't think you need a special dish for GOL. You need a 5-LNB feed. The dish you need depends on if your dish will support that or not. I have lost track of which dishes are which, but when I was having some line of sight issues, they took my 5-LNB off and replaced it with a 3-LNB without changing the dish itself. I had access to some Spanish channels that I do not anymore because my current setup does not see all the standard satellites.

That page also doesn't list the channels they added last week. Are you going to claim that is false advertising as well? I'm sure they will update it eventually, but it is not the page people are going to be looking at when choosing a package or determining what channels they will receive.

That page also doesn't list the channels they added last week. Are you going to claim that is false advertising as well? I'm sure they will update it eventually, but it is not the page people are going to be looking at when choosing a package or determining what channels they will receive.

They did miss it and screwed up. They have Time Warner Sportsnet on the list, which was added after GolTV was removed, so they blew it here.

I don't think you need a special dish for GOL. You need a 5-LNB feed. The dish you need depends on if your dish will support that or not. I have lost track of which dishes are which, but when I was having some line of sight issues, they took my 5-LNB off and replaced it with a 3-LNB without changing the dish itself. I had access to some Spanish channels that I do not anymore because my current setup does not see all the standard satellites.

You do need a special dish in the Jersey Shore area. They tried adding the Spanish package for me (and I don't speak Spanish!) but they said I would need a dish upgrade.

That page also doesn't list the channels they added last week. Are you going to claim that is false advertising as well? I'm sure they will update it eventually, but it is not the page people are going to be looking at when choosing a package or determining what channels they will receive.

I hope it doesn't go another 6 months either, but my statement was in reference to the fact that we have been told more is to come in the 3Q. If we get more prior to that, that's a cherry on top.

To be honest though, outside of The CW DNS feeds, there's nothing I'm in any rush to get in HD, and since I'm not expecting them anytime soon, it really doesn't matter to me when the next expansion is (at this time)... just that they keep coming.

I would hope that FUSE HD and WE HD come fairly quickly after IFC HD is on the system. My rational is because the owner, AMC NETWORKS usually bundles AMC HD, IFC HD, WE HD and FUSE HD as a package. Having 2 out of the 4 tells me that at least some kind of deal was done, or at least people at DIRECTV were talking to AMC NETWORKS.

It would be interesting to see the % of new DirecTV customers that are signing up and getting DVRs, vs those choosing regular receivers.

While DIRECTV offers details about their Latin American hardware configuration statistics, in the US, they glob all DVRs and HD receivers together. That number for the last reported quarter (2012 Q3) was 90% Advanced Products. You would have to somehow ferret out how many of SD DVRs there were but in a decidedly Applesque move, they've not been in the habit of giving the information up.

Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -- JFK

Reelz HD is probably a good possibility for Q3 since we already have the HD VOD. (LMN, TV Land, H2, Cooking Channel launched HD VOD content before the linear HD was added)

The other Viacom owned ones (LOGO HD & MTV2 HD) that already have HD VOD are also good possibilities for Q3; since TeenNick and VH1 Classic offer content in HD VOD we could possibly see Viacom launch there linear HD channels later this year.

DirecTV & Starz Entertainment renewed distribution rights in April 2012, in the PR it stated DirecTV was enabled to launch MoviePlex, IndiePlex & RetroPlex and the related MOVIEPLEX ON DEMAND and MOVIEPLEX ONLINE service on DIRECTV Everywhere. Thus far they have added the authentication with Starz & Encore Play. Link to Press Release. These are yet even more possibilities that we could see.